Author: Speymouth
Glasgow cafe which featured in Still Game put on sale as closure announced
Scottish games cafe announces permanent closure in shock statement
Visits from space aliens
You may not have noticed, on account of doing something far more engrossing, like de-fluffing your navel, but last week Scotland was ‘graced’ – I use the term advisedly – by a visit from Russell Findlay’s boss Kemi Badenoch, a woman who makes the notoriously ill-tempered and uptight deputy leader of…
Mapping the British Media
The media in Britain is “a raging furnace of right-wing provocation, spitting out lies, fear and spite, shaping a political culture of miserliness and insularity”. We’ve been bringing you daily coverage of Scottish and UK politics for eighteen years. We publish writing on Arts and Culture (with a ton of music, reviews, poetry and film). We publish […] Source
‘Absolutely devastated’ – quarry application is approved but villagers say they will not give up battle against it
Elgin man kicked and stamped on woman’s head in vicious assault
Elgin High Street building transformation will ‘erode’ appearance of town, objectors claim
Maria Fusco reads from Alasdair Gray’s ‘Lanark’
South African company buys Scotland’s only gold mine – and aims to reopen it
Historic 180-year-old riverside inn for sale in the Highlands
We can’t afford to miss out on another bonanza
B&M confirms new store to open in the Borders this year
Scotland has been left with little to show for its natural bounty
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer, we’ll kick your crutches out of here.
War and Broken Britain
The broken nature of Britain and British politics continues to unfold as large groups of people operate in mutual incomprehension. Talk of conscription is being openly discussed by some – even as the memory of the polls suggests collapsing belief in the very idea of Britain fades (Gen Z and the Death of Britain). A […] Source